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On December 23, 1941, Dr. Samuel Roth was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the illegal abortion death of a woman I identify as Jane Roe of 1937. Roth, whose license was suspended at the time, performed the abortion in his office on January 16, 1937. (Source: //New York Times// 12-24-41)

During the 1940s, while abortion was still illegal, there was a massive drop in maternal mortality from abortion. The death toll fell from 1,407 in 1940, to 744 in 1945, to 263 in 1950. Most researches attribute this plunge to the development of blood transfusion techniques and the introduction of antibiotics. Learn more [|here].



For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

born 1907 + - 10 died January 16, 1937 New York Possible identities: Wilma Bruckner Carmela Alascia Margaret Calderwood Helen Czukor Antoinette Garbo Ida Gewirtz Neino Haapola Viola King Lenore Kress Rosina D. MacArthur Anna Miglioe Helen T. Quinn Lillian Reynolds Mary Rose Lorenzina Tarallo Fredrina Wilson Marie K. Zimmerman

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